Quietly Care

In order to catch up with Yan Zezhen's name, Chi Jin tried his best to get into the No. 1 Middle school. During the three years of high school, his name was the quietest obsession in her heart. She didn't know that the slowness of his speech when explaining math problems, the brief pause in his eyes when they met by chance, and the subtle patience that others could not notice, but only for her, were all his unspoken concerns. There was a transparent wall between them, and amid the piles of test papers and sleepy morning self-study sessions, an unspoken ambiguity was brewing silently. It wasn't until the summer evening after the college entrance examination that he blocked her way, and the words "I like you" that had been stuck in her throat for three years finally came to fruition. It turns out that this long secret love has always been a two-way street. All the careful likes finally got a response in midsummer.